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What common word or phrase have you always said incorrectly?

Asked by Fly (8726points) June 17th, 2010

Most of us are familiar with the awkward situation when someone finally corrects you after you’ve been saying something a certain way for the past twenty years.

I pronounced “bureau” as bur-ee-oo and lingerie as linger-ee for about twelve years before someone finally told me. I have a friend who still says “papasicle” because her parents thought it was too cute to correct when she was a kid. My dad used to think “menus” was pronounced “mee-nis.” This question was inspired by @Augustlan, who said the phrase “quelle surprise” sans French pronunciation as “kwell surprise” earlier today.
Granted, she also used to pronounce “voila” as “viola”...she really should brush up on her French.

So what was your embarrassing blunder?

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